Will your doctor tell you all this?
Your doctor will give you the usual spiel about 350mg/dl being the threshold for clinical diagnosis of hypogonadism. But there’s a few major problems with this.
The 350 Level Is Determined By Societal Norms
Firstly, 350mg/dl is a number that has been continually trending downwards over the years. Medical professionals used to use far higher numbers than this to equate societal norms, with ‘healthy’. But as the societal norms continued to drop, so too did the clinical diagnosis of low testosterone. Doctors continually shift the goalposts, down.
The reality is that men’s testosterone levels have been falling for many decades now, across all ages. 30 year old men in 2021 have less testosterone than 30 year old men in 2011. They had less than 30 years olds in 2001. And so the cycle continues.